Leading Private Wealth Practice | Prime London | Country Estates | International Clients
Location: London
PQE: 1-3 years
Practice: Private Property / Residential Property
Clients: HNW and UHNW individuals, families, investors and landed estates
Salary: Highly competitive
Lex Exec is working with one of the leading names in the international private wealth market to recruit a 1-3 PQE Associate into its highly regarded Private Property team.
The firm has an exceptional reputation for advising high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, families, family offices, entrepreneurs and landed estate owners, with a private client offering that sits at the very top of the UK market.
Its Private Property practice handles some of the most sophisticated residential property work in London and nationally, often alongside colleagues specialising in private wealth, tax, trusts and landed estates.
For a junior property lawyer with strong credentials looking to build a career at the premium end of the private client property market, this is an exceptional opportunity.
The Role
The successful Associate will join a substantial and highly regarded Private Property practice, advising a sophisticated domestic and international client base.
The work includes:
- Acquisitions and disposals of prime and super-prime residential property
- High-value London houses and apartments
- Country houses and estates
- Residential development and investment property
- High-value renovation and development projects
- Property holding structures and cross-border ownership issues
- Landlord and tenant matters
- Property matters forming part of wider private wealth and estate planning
- Opportunities to work alongside specialists advising landed estates and rural property owners
A major attraction is the client base. The team acts for HNW and UHNW individuals and families, international clients, entrepreneurs, investors and owners of significant landed and historic estates.
The wider firm has outstanding capabilities across private wealth, tax, trusts, family and landed estates, creating genuinely multidisciplinary work rather than residential property advice in isolation.
About You
We are particularly interested in speaking with solicitors at 1-3 PQE who have developed their experience within a well-regarded residential or private property practice.
Candidates are likely to demonstrate:
- A very strong academic record
- High-quality training and post-qualification experience
- Experience gained within a highly regarded residential or private property team
- Strong technical grounding in property law
- Exposure to high-value residential transactions, or a clear desire to specialise at this end of the market
- Excellent drafting and communication skills
- Confidence dealing with sophisticated clients
- Strong attention to detail
- A commercial, pragmatic and highly professional approach
You do not necessarily need to be coming from an identical UHNW private property practice. We are equally interested in hearing from strong junior lawyers at respected firms who have the academic background, technical ability and client skills to make the step into this market.
Why Consider It?
This is an opportunity to join one of the strongest private wealth platforms in the market and develop alongside lawyers recognised as leaders in their respective fields.
For an ambitious junior property lawyer, the role offers exposure to exceptional clients, complex and high-value transactions and a genuinely international private client practice.
It is particularly well suited to someone who has built strong foundations within a respected property team and is now looking to take the next step into the very top end of the private property market.
For a confidential discussion, please apply here or contact me directly via DM or email at colin@lex-exec.com.
About Lex Exec
Lex Exec is a specialist legal recruitment consultancy working with leading UK and international law firms. We recruit lawyers from NQ through to Partner level, with particular expertise across Private Client, Family, Property, Employment and specialist private wealth practices.
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